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A great idea and one that shores up the Liberal intellectual base while shuffling them forward as the party that is taking on a lead on this issue. Now, given that this issue is not one that a majority of Canadians are interested in, nor is this conversation worthy of re-scheduling the french language debate for but it is one that is held near and dear to some Canadian’s hearts.

Further, planning to have outsiders lead the conversation takes away some of the overt political punditness of it, and keeps it firmly in the policy wonk camp. This works. These are the type of people who care about this issue. They will also care about a party taking leadership, “in the right way” on this. They also are the type to vote. These are the people who any party should be after. The type who will vote if given a reason, but may not vote if they see nothing on their radar.